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Wednesday, February 20, 2008

VFP Studio

Since posting the countdown, I've been fielding lots of questions regarding VFP Studio. Some of the mystery surrounding VFP Studio has been on purpose and some of it has been because we (Bo Durban and I) are not yet sure what all is possible working within the framework provided by Microsoft via the Visual Studio Isolated Shell. However, in order to provide a little more transparency and begin the process of getting feedback from the community I will be presenting a series of screencasts in the next few months. Here I present the first screencast in the series on VFP Studio's Code Editor.

VFP Studio's Code Editor, which is made possible via a Language Service Bo Durban and I created in Visual Studio 2008, provides some significant enhancements when compared to the editor included in VFP 9.0 including outlining, Quick Info, Intellisense for user-defined classes, line numbers, word wrap, VS-style navigation bar, improved Code Snippets and various other features we are implementing in to VFP Studio. In any event, here's the screencast. Enjoy.

Link to View the Screencast Online:

VFP Studio's Code Editor (approx. 9 MB)

Link to Download SWF for Offline Viewing:

VFP Studio Code Editor Screencast in Zip Format (approx. 9 MB)

Until next time... VFP Rocks!

Information Technology | Visual Foxpro

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 4:41:30 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Comments [23]

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 5:57:41 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Looks really promising Craig, thanks a lot for this, I think that with this, Guineu and etecnologia work, VFP will survive a lot more (even live for ever).

How it's going to be sell this?

Luis Navas

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 6:56:07 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Thanks for the screen cast Craig. It looks very cool. It's awesome how pillars of the community like you and Bo provide stuff like this!

Comments: Your demo was all working with PRG files, and wow you hit a homerun for that... However, maybe it's just me, or maybe I'm jumping ahead here, but most of my VFP work on classes is though the VFP IDE, and also on SCX forms through the IDE. Will VFP Studio allow me to open a VCX or SCX file and work on it in design mode with an object properties toolbar, or is it only going to be for PRG based projects? I never "write" or "code" a class object, I always use the IDE to "design" ones. Same for my UI forms.

Also, will the VFP Studio 'app' run in real VS2008, or will I still need to install the VS shell tool also?

(P.S. Same comment entered on UT)

Matt Slay

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:42:01 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Craig,
I know that VFP Rocks (I love that language)
But You and Bo Durban definitely Rocks. :-)
THANK YOU!

Borislav Borissov

Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:35:05 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Thanks Graig,
VFP Rocks!

Francis FAURE

Thursday, February 21, 2008 5:30:00 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Hi,
Amazing... Thank ...
Some enhancement requests (not sure if already in your todo list)

1. Auto complete for code block, for example, auto type "end if" upon keyword if typed;auto "ENDDEFINE" upon "DEFINE CLASS" entered.

2. Auto list available classes in projects during variable declaration, LOCAL x AS <auto list classes>

3. 2. Auto list available classes in projects upon "CREATEOBJECT(" or "NEWOBJECT(" entered.

Thank again.

Chan Kok Kiet

Thursday, February 21, 2008 11:59:10 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Excellent work!!... but... I was wondering: why invest so many time and effort to create another IDE (even a VS-based one) for a product that is dead? I love VFP, and still use it almost everyday... like I said, just wondering about...

Victor Espina

Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:11:10 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Craig,

Brilliant! I look forward to using this. I will definately keep an eye out for your next screen cast.

Your choice of the Phoenix for a logo is also brilliant.

Ken Murphy

Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:41:41 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Well, *dribble*. Well done Craig and Bo.

Alan Bourke

Thursday, February 21, 2008 3:03:18 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

This looks promising. Keep up the good work guys.

apaustria

Thursday, February 21, 2008 3:06:25 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Thanks Craig ...
Bo Durban and you are making a great effort that, I believe, is very much appreciated by all of us programmers who have tons of code in VFP and have to maintain clients who have applications written in VFP. VFP Studio, Guineu and other efforts to integrate it to .NET will maintain our excellent programming language "current" for many years to come ... our language will never be dead while people like you and us continue to support it and enhance it ...

Thanks again

Victor Espinoza (not to be confused with Victor Espina ... thank you very much) :)

Victor Espinoza

Thursday, February 21, 2008 4:49:47 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Your are making just a new IDE or a NEW VFP Application with all this means? We are going to have REPORTS? and the Improvements that we need since it exists?

Fabián

Thursday, February 21, 2008 4:52:42 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Very impressive. This will be a very useful extension to the environment.

Dave Summers (DSummZZZ)

Thursday, February 21, 2008 6:04:29 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Oh, my. This could be Very. Cool.

Garrett Fitzgerald

Friday, February 22, 2008 2:09:51 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Very nice. Looks to be along the same line as IronPython Studio. Is this part of an open source project, part of VFPX or??

Mike McCann

Friday, February 22, 2008 11:20:25 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Wow, I nearly got a heartattack from the excitement i felt when viewing this. Half of my life i am working nearly exclusively with Fox (well, since FPD2.0) and seldom there were such impressive new enhancements like this. I hope you got the endurance to bring this to a RTM-state, because i'll be one of the first who wants it! Thanks again for your great and inspiring work.

Michael Schwing

Monday, February 25, 2008 1:02:29 PM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Thats Great sir,
i m excited too after seeing this demo. I have a query? can we have a form designer /report designer in vfpstudio?

Anil

Anil D Sharma

Wednesday, February 27, 2008 1:33:29 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Thanks very much, Craig and the rest of you guys involved in any way in this.

Can you like release even an alpha version now? - having seen it,
I can barely wait another project not using it!

This is really amazing! May the Force be with you, man!

horus1222

Friday, March 07, 2008 12:36:59 AM (Central Standard Time, UTC-06:00)

Great news I've been developing since 1987 in foxpro and I almost die when Microsoft killed it. Hopefully you it will not die easily.

Thanks

Gerardo Baron

Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:34:50 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)

At the minute this is a fairly different proposition than IronPython Studio. Python itself is open source. It also does not have a native GUI designer, reporting tool or database. You instead use any one of a number of GUI toolkits, reporting libraries or databases. This gives cross-platform flexibility of course. So we have a great VFP code editor in VFP Studio at the minute. What I can't see an easy way around is implementing something like the VFP IDE, where you can open a form, double click on a method, enter code and so on. And do all the drag-and-drop design, including adding COM objects. But if anyone can do it, the Boydmeister can!

Alan Bourke

Friday, May 02, 2008 9:34:25 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)

Where disapeare counter from vfpstudio.com?

Michael

Wednesday, June 04, 2008 11:19:28 AM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)

What're the news of VfpStudio ?

The project continue ?

Hamou Olivier

Monday, June 23, 2008 10:27:01 AM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)

OK! See also [url]http://www.foxclub.ru/farc/index.php?action=downloadfile&filename=WorkDs.rar&directory=Devcon%202008&SID[/url]

Skripilev Mikhail

Wednesday, July 23, 2008 1:08:53 PM (Central Daylight Time, UTC-05:00)

Is Vfp studio still going on or was just an experiment going bad. The counter is gone and we haven't heard from it again.

Gerardo Baron

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